The legendary mangaka wanted Gohan to take over as the main protagonist—but it wasn’t meant to be. “I tried to make Gohan the protagonist. It didn’t work. Compared to Goku, I felt he wasn’t ready,” ...

We’re only one night's sleep away from the release of Bandai Namco’s new RPG based on the late Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s underappreciated wasteland series, Sand Land. To celebrate the ...

Before I saw Dragon Ball on VHS tapes in American flea markets and airing on Toonami, I saw it on TV in Guatemala, crowding around a tiny set with distant cousins I barely knew, in a language I had ...

The creator of Goku and Vegeta admitted he never liked naming attacks, and only did so at his editor’s insistence. In a 1995 interview, Toriyama confessed that he didn’t enjoy naming techniques, and ...

At New York Comic Con 2023, Toei Animation announced the next anime installment of the sprawling Dragon Ball franchise, Dragon Ball: Daima, in which Goku and friends are getting… younger and tinier?

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii shared some words about the death of renowned manga artist Akira Toriyama. After news of his passing started spreading, many close friends and colleagues in the ...

Legendary manga artist Akira Toriyama, the creator of the internationally popular “Dragon Ball” series and character designer on the “Dragon Quest” video games, died Friday after suffering an acute ...

Renan is the Anime Lead Editor for GameRant. Ren graduated Cum Laude from Lesley University in 2017 and has been focusing exclusively on his journalistic endeavors ever since. When Ren isn't working, ...

Dragon Ball Daima has released its second episode with the first steps into the new anime series, and it sets up how Goku and the others will be traveling through the Demon Realm in order to confront ...

Dragon Ball has existed in some form or another for the last 30 years, but Akira Toriyama didn’t always have an easy time producing chapters for the series despite its popularity (which he has gone on ...